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on 7/20/2009
This is a tough one!
on 7/23/2009
damn
on 8/7/2009
well, here's a couple of winners here. some folks (like me )would say these are two of the best films of the '90's. i've heard others say these are two of the most over-rated films of all time!some say "Shawshank" is overly sentimental, some say "Fight Club" is a mess! isa y there is room in the movie universe for both sentimentality and messiness. what i like about the match-up is that you're talking (slight spoiler alert) one of the happiest endings ever vs.one of the most apocalyptic endings ever. in the end i choose "Fight Club" because of Ed Norton and Helena Bonham-Carter's acting and David Fincher's direction.
on 11/17/2009
The Shawshank Redemption is cinematic perfection. Fight Club is a treat to rewatch and dissect, and it is many things, but none of those things is perfect.
on 12/13/2009
while both are probably overrated by avg white dudes (such as myself) i gotta go with fight club. just too fun to quote and watch over and over
on 3/19/2010
In one of them you make soap, in the other you don't want to drop the soap.
on 6/15/2010
Whoa. Two of my favorite all time movies. While Fight Club is very interesting and has some of my favorite actors in it, I have to go with Shawshank simply because it is more emotionally gripping.
on 7/26/2010
Fight Club is a blast, albeit predictable. Shawshank is a perfect film if there ever was one.
on 8/23/2010
While I feel like Shawshank may be an overall better movie, I still have to give it to Fight Club simply because of it's replay value and it's quotability.
Shawshank=overhyped, melodramatic drivel. Darabont employs every cliche strategy possible to twang the heartstrings of his audience, but in doing so he sacrificed a (in any way) believable storyline. So, definitely Fight Club>Shawshank.
on 8/14/2011
Definitely shawshank!
on 12/12/2011
Great rewatch value on either side. Indeed two of the best of the 90's, FC does it with a screenplay that good.
on 2/13/2012
pretty hard for me but im going with Shawshank
Fight Club was better in my opnion.
on 2/16/2012
Both legends. Shawshank wins though.
on 7/24/2012
Suprisingly easy win for Shawshank.
on 2/3/2013
Fight Club takes it, only just.
on 2/4/2013
Norton and Pitt complement each other far better than Morgan and Robbins. Fight Club beats Shawshank to a pulp.
on 3/12/2013
i agree that ithe shawshank redemption is perfection. fight club means more to me.
on 3/27/2013
Oh shit, my top 2!
on 6/26/2013
The Shawshank Redemption for entertainment value.
on 8/20/2013
Shawshank
on 8/21/2013
I'm switching to Shawshank.
on 9/2/2013
Shawshank, both top 10.
on 12/11/2013
First time I watched Fight Club never loved it but liked it. First time watching Shawshank, loved it.
on 1/16/2014
Love Shawshank. But definitely Fight Club for me. I might switch though.
on 10/12/2014
The Shawshank Redemption needs a rewatch and wins from just vague memory anyway.
on 12/5/2015
Very tough choice. Shawshank for me.
on 12/14/2015
Fight club but man it is close
on 6/16/2017
Josef thinks Fight club, Sammy aswell. Adrian is a bit frustrated because he thinks Shawshank is better. He calls them pussies!
on 5/23/2018
Redemption.
on 7/10/2018
both films are so forgettables then i think both are a bad classics films
on 2/13/2020
The Shawshank Redemption by far, fight club is overrated.
on 5/23/2020
fight club is an all time great, but Shawshank is too damn captivating. Shawshank ftw
Shawshank is tens times better.
on 10/24/2022
both movies have the opposite meaning of hope. Shawshank by a hair
on 11/18/2022
I can watch both movies as much as I want to and it won't get worse. I will go with Shawshank for its message but this is a close match-up.
